In:
Learning & Memory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Vol. 17, No. 7 ( 2010-07), p. 332-336
Abstract:
Here, we examined the effect of a daytime nap on changes in virtual maze performance across a single day. Participants either took a short nap or remained awake following training on a virtual maze task. Post-training sleep provided a clear performance benefit at later retest, but only for those participants with prior experience navigating in a three-dimensional (3D) environment. Performance improvements in experienced players were correlated with delta-rich stage 2 sleep. Complementing observations that learning-related brain activity is reiterated during post-navigation NREM sleep in rodents, the present data demonstrate that NREM sleep confers a performance advantage for spatial memory in humans.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1072-0502
,
1549-5485
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Publication Date:
2010
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2022057-1
SSG:
12
SSG:
5,2